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Who settled in the Caribbean in search of gold and riches to bring back for there country

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Spanish colonists settled in the Caribbean in search of gold and riches to bring back for there country
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Answer: “Spanish colonists”

The extraction of wealth from of the Caribbean dates back to the Spanish colonists, starting in the 1490s, who forced indigenous peoples held by Spanish settlers in encomienda to mine for gold.
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